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AUTO3D: Novel View Synthesis Through Unsupervisely Learned Variational Viewpoint and Global 3D Representation

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This paper targets on learning-based novel view synthesis from a single or limited 2D images without the pose supervision. In the viewer-centered coordinates, we construct an end-to-end trainable conditional variational framework to disentangle the unsupervisely learned relative-pose/rotation and implicit global 3D representation (shape, texture and the origin of viewer-centered coordinates, etc.). The global appearance of the 3D object is given by several appearance-describing images taken from any number of viewpoints. Our spatial correlation module extracts a global 3D representation from the appearance-describing images in a permutation invariant manner. Our system can achieve implicitly 3D understanding without explicitly 3D reconstruction. With an unsupervisely learned viewer-centered relative-pose/rotation code, the decoder can hallucinate the novel view continuously by sampling the relative-pose in a prior distribution. In various applications, we demonstrate that our model can achieve comparable or even better results than pose/3D model-supervised learning-based novel view synthesis (NVS) methods with any number of input views.

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This work was supported by the Jangsu Youth Programme [grant number SBK2020041180], National Natural Science Foundation of China, Younth Programme [grant number 61705221], the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number GK2240260006], NIH [NS061841, NS095986], Fanhan Technology, and Hong Kong Government General Research Fund GRF (Ref. No.152202/14E) are greatly appreciated.

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Liu, X., Che, T., Lu, Y., Yang, C., Li, S., You, J. (2020). AUTO3D: Novel View Synthesis Through Unsupervisely Learned Variational Viewpoint and Global 3D Representation. In: Vedaldi, A., Bischof, H., Brox, T., Frahm, JM. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2020. ECCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58545-7_4

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